13 Facts About Mitch Easter

Mitchell Blake Easter was born on November 15,1954 and is a musician, songwriter, and record producer.

Mitch Easter attended the University of North Carolina from 1974 until his graduation in 1978.

Mitch Easter played in a number of school bands, including the Loyal Opposition, the Imperturbable Teutonic Gryphon and Sacred Irony, some of them with his childhood friend Chris Stamey.

In 1980, Mitch Easter started Drive-In Studio, a professional recording studio located in what was originally his parents' garage.

Mitch Easter closed the Drive-In Studio in 1994, and moved from Winston-Salem to Kernersville, North Carolina, where he opened his current recording studio, Fidelitorium Recordings.

At the age of 15, in 1970, Mitch Easter joined the band Rittenhouse Square which included friends Chris Stamey, Peter Holsapple, and Bobby Locke.

In 1978, Mitch Easter joined Stamey's Sneakers, a band that Mitch Easter characterized as "pre-punk transitional".

In 1981, Mitch Easter formed Let's Active with then-girlfriend Faye Hunter and drummer Sara Romweber.

Mitch Easter had previously worked with Ziegler when he produced Game Theory's 1986 album The Big Shot Chronicles.

In 2000, Mitch Easter re-teamed with Let's Active member Eric Marshall and with Shalini Chatterjee, to form the trio Shalini.

Mitch Easter released his first solo album, Dynamico, on March 13,2007.

Mitch Easter formed a combo that toured with him in 2007 in support of the album, with the group Shalini as the opening act, to promote Dynamico and Shalini's 2007 album The Surface and the Shine.

Mitch Easter dismissed Chatterjee from his band in January 2010, and the two had divorced by 2011.